Last week, Target teamed up with the Willow Smith and her “Kids Helping Kids” campaign to award eight deserving New York kids and their families with a holiday shopping spree in the Target Harlem store. The lucky kids were selected based on a nomination from The Boys and Girls Club of NYC for displaying leadership and academic excellence.
Fifty excited honor roll students from The Harlem Children’s Zone also joined in on the early morning festivities to cheer on the families as they sped through the store. CHECK OUT VIDEO BELOW:
Solange Knowles has teamed up with the world’s largest marrow donor center DKMS, to encourage people like you and me to register and become a bone marrow donor. DKMS’ mission is to help save the lives of leukemia patients.
“Every day thousands of patients search the national registry in the hope of finding a bone marrow donor match. Less than 30% of patients find a match in their own family; the other 70% must search for an unrelated donor. Sadly, 6 out of 10 patients who can benefit from a transplant never receive one.”
Over the summer, Solange hosted a donor drive at Juelz’s school and has been passionate about informing the public about getting tested and donating bone marrow to those affected by the degenerative disease: Continue
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our community is the most affected by HIV with an estimated 1 in 16 black men and 1 in 32 black women who will be diagnosed with HIV infection.
Today, on World AIDS Day, let’s do something to change those stats for the better. Help spread the word on how we can stop the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS: Abstain from sex, Be faithful to a single partner and use a Condom each and every time you have sex. It’s imperative that we get educated, get tested, get treated and get involved!
Join BlackDoctor.org and Dr. Keith Crawford, one of the nation’s top HIV/AIDS experts, for a live Q&A session today at 4pm CT via the BlackDoctor.org Facebook page. Submit ALL your questions (nothing is off-limits) by simply posting on the Facebook wall or emailing feedback@blackdoctor.org. Your expressed preference for anonymity will be respected.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson appears in a poignant anti-gun PSA as he calls for an end to the senseless acts of violence that claimed the lives of over 8,000 individuals last year, according to the FBI’s uniform crime reports.
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